See Also

Syscall.chmod

Syscall.mkfifo

Syscall.stat

Syscall.umask

Parameters

pathname

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mode

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dev

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Returns

On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned and Stdlib.GetLastError returns the translated error.

Usage

The mknod() system call will fail and the file will be not created if:

Error	Details
Errno.ENOTDIR	A component of the path prefix is not a directory.
Errno.ENAMETOOLONG	A component of a pathname exceeded 255 characters, or an entire path name exceeded 1023 characters.
Errno.ENOENT	A component of the path prefix does not exist.
Errno.EACCES	Search permission is denied for a component of the path prefix.
Errno.ELOOP	Too many symbolic links were encountered in translating the pathname.
Errno.EPERM	The process's effective user ID is not super-user.
Errno.EIO	An I/O error occurred while making the directory entry or allocating the inode.
Errno.ENOSPC	The directory in which the entry for the new node is being placed cannot be extended because there is no space left on the file system containing the directory.
Errno.ENOSPC	There are no free inodes on the file system on which the node is being created.
Errno.EDQUOT	The directory in which the entry for the new node is being placed cannot be extended because the user's quota of disk blocks on the file system containing the directory has been exhausted.
Errno.EDQUOT	The user's quota of inodes on the file system on which the node is being created has been exhausted.
Errno.EROFS	The named file resides on a read-only file system.
Errno.EEXIST	The named file exists.
Errno.EFAULT	The path argument points outside the process's allocated address space.
Errno.EINVAL	Creating anything else than a block or character special file (or a whiteout ) is not supported.

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Remarks

The file system node path is created with the file type and access permissions specified in mode . The access permissions are modified by the process's umask value.

If mode indicates a block or character special file, dev is a configuration dependent specification denoting a particular device on the system. Otherwise, dev is ignored.

The mknod() system call requires super-user privileges.

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Requirements

Namespace: Mono.Unix.Native
Assembly: Mono.Posix (in Mono.Posix.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0